In the late ’70s, VAZ (Lada) built a handful of rotary-engined cars. The best footage I could find of the Soviet rotary is a potato-quality 13 year old YouTube video showing a beater version doing donuts in a parking lot and belching smoke, but that feels appropriate, somehow.

In the late ’70s, VAZ (Lada) built a handful of rotary-engined cars. The best footage I could find of the Soviet rotary is a potato-quality 13 year old YouTube video showing a beater version doing donuts in a parking lot and belching smoke, but that feels appropriate, somehow.

by SkippyNordquist